Hear the husband-and-wife roots duo perform new songs from Little Seeds onstage in West Virginia.

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]]>Watch Shovels & Rope, The Lumineers And Bobby Rush Play 'Americana Alphabet' Dawes, Lydia Loveless and more also joined NPR's Ann Powers and Jewly Hight for intimate rounds of storytelling and music at Nashville's Union Station Hotel during AmericanaFest 2016.Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:15:00 -0400https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2016/10/27/499627267/watch-shovels-rope-the-lumineers-and-bobby-rush-play-americana-alphabet?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=shovelsrope
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Dawes, Lydia Loveless and more also joined NPR's Ann Powers and Jewly Hight for intimate rounds of storytelling and music at Nashville's Union Station Hotel during AmericanaFest 2016.

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]]>Bruce WarrenShovels & Rope On World CafeThe Charleston, S.C., duo gets back to writing great songs on its new album, <em>Little Seeds</em>. Hear a conversation and performance.Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:41:00 -0400https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2016/09/30/495973902/shovels-rope-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=shovelsrope
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The Charleston, S.C., duo gets back to writing great songs on its new album, Little Seeds. Hear a conversation and performance.

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]]>Review: Shovels & Rope, 'Little Seeds'Parenthood gives the husband-and-wife Americana duo the will to rock on an album that's informed by both birth and death.Thu, 29 Sep 2016 07:00:00 -0400https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495709340/first-listen-shovels-rope-little-seeds?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=shovelsrope
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Parenthood gives the husband-and-wife Americana duo the will to rock on an album that's informed by both birth and death.

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]]>Jim AllenSongs We Love: Shovels & Rope, 'St. Anne's Parade'Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent embrace a glorious muddle of joy and grief in a song named for an annual Mardi Gras ritual. In the video, the duo and a masked wedding party join the procession.Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:00:21 -0400https://www.npr.org/2016/08/24/490963127/songs-we-love-shovels-rope-st-annes-parade?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=shovelsrope
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Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent embrace a glorious muddle of joy and grief in a song named for an annual Mardi Gras ritual. In the video, the duo and a masked wedding party join the procession.

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]]>Rachel HornShovels & Rope Explains Its New Covers Album, Track By TrackCary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent invited an assortment of their best musician friends to play on their new album of covers, <em>Busted Jukebox Vol. I</em>.Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:03:00 -0500https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/11/16/455751783/shovels-ropes-explains-its-new-covers-album-track-by-track?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=shovelsrope
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Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent invited an assortment of their best musician friends to play on their new album of covers, Busted Jukebox Vol. I.

The South Carolina duo's garage-folk sound and heartfelt songwriting have won over countless fans.

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]]>Shovels & Rope: In Marriage And Music, A 'Psychic' BondRelationships are complicated, and as Cary Ann Hearst says of her marriage and musical partner Michael Trent, "It's a strange thing to be held accountable as part of the musical act."Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:03:00 -0400https://www.npr.org/2014/08/26/343114385/shovels-rope-in-marriage-and-music-a-psychic-bond?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=shovelsrope
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Relationships are complicated, and as Cary Ann Hearst says of her marriage and musical partner Michael Trent, "It's a strange thing to be held accountable as part of the musical act."

]]>Stephen ThompsonShovels & Rope: Tiny Desk ConcertThe husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend. Watch Shovels & Rope perform a pair of songs from 2012's <em>O' Be Joyful</em>, as well as the older "Bad Luck," live in the NPR Music offices.Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:00:00 -0400https://www.npr.org/event/music/223115562/shovels-rope-tiny-desk-concert?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=shovelsrope
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The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend. Watch Shovels & Rope perform a pair of songs from 2012's O' Be Joyful, as well as the older "Bad Luck," live in the NPR Music offices.